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I like it for the initial image it gives me although I’m not sure if I fully ‘get it’ yet, you know? Does it mean his mouth is small? hard? smooth? I get the implication/inference of being wet or moist which makes me wonder if you really need ‘wet’ in that line at all.

Thanks everyone. Ideally I would expand Fried Beauty to the full length of the poem it’s parodying, but the idea of making a serious attempt to parody Hopkins for more than a few lines makes my head hurt.

Scotty: I’m slightly reluctant to dissect the image after the event, beyond saying that it seemed good when I came up with it, but it’s a fair question.

I guess if I was forced to explain why I picked it, I’d say that the qualities of the pebble I would hope were effective would be that it’s compact, firm, attractive, moist, and ephemeral because once a wet pebble dries, it’s just a dry pebble. And that the hardness seemed appropriately masculine, given that most of the images I was coming up with were flowers and suchlike.